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- Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; My operant powers their functions leave to do: And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, Honour'd, belov'd, and haply one as kind For husband shalt thou,— P. Queen.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — A hall in the Castle (47% in)
- Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wan'd; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — A room in the Castle (92% in)
There are no more uses of "function" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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